Aly Loves Lacquer

Sally Hansen makes some beautiful blues! Remember Pacific Blue that I swatched before? Here is another gorgeous blue crème, called Blue Me Away! It went on beautifully and was way more pigmented than I expected. It went on in two easy coats.

First I'm going to show you my final product, then we'll backtrack and look at Blue Me Away! on its own. So here is Sally Hansen Blue Me Away! with a coat of OPI Last Friday Night and OPI Silver Shatter on top of that, followed by Seche Vite of course.

This glitter polish, Wet N Wild Party of Five Glitters is part of their fastdry line. It is considered a dupe for Deborah Lippmann's Happy Birthday. Since the Lippmann is so expensive, I went for this one instead. There isn't much to say about application; it was just fine. I used two coats for a more dense glittery look.

Here are 2 coats Wet N Wild Party of Five Glitters over OPI William Tell Me About OPI, and Seche Vite on top.

Here is a beautiful jelly green called Amaranth. I am IN LOVE with this color.  It is a vibrant green jelly. It took 3 coats for maximum opacity, and was well worth each one. One of my friends described it as "looking like candy," which I think was an apt description. The jelly finish looks great on Amaranth. This is one of my first true jellies, and I absolutely love it!

Here are 3 coats New York Summer Amaranth and 1 coat Seche Vite.

Isn't it beautiful? I absolutely can't get enough of this true jelly finish. New York Summer Amaranth was really cheap on transdesign too, so it was a real steal.

What are your favorite jellies?

- Aly

Happy pink Wednesday! This week I'll be showing you Essie Van D'Go. It was released with the Essie Art of Spring Collection 2010. Van D'Go is a nice crème peachy pink. It has a definite touch of orange in the formula, but comes off mostly pink. The application wasn't the greatest, with the first coat being incredibly streaky. However, it built up beautifully in 3 coats.

This is 3 coats Essie Van D'Go and 1 coat Seche Vite.

Skull & Glossbones was released with OPI's summer Pirates of the Caribbean collection. I only picked up two colors: Skull & Glossbones and Planks a Lot. I am still looking for Mermaid Tears though! OPI Skull & Glossbones is a grey crème with good coverage. It has a definite green tinge to it. I really like the color, and it's very unique to my collection because of that greenish tint. Very cool color.

This is 2 coats OPI Skull & Glossbones and 1 coat Seche Vite.

Here is another polish following the scented trend. We have had Color Club's Wicked Sweet, these Revlon Scented ones, and even Crayola released their own take on the trend. I will be swatching all 5 Crayola Scented colors soon, but for now let's take a look at Revlon Not So Blueberry.

Not So Blueberry is a really unique color to my collection. It is a nice lavender purple base color, with lots of blue and pinkish shimmer. In the bottle it looks like a duochrome, but on the nail that doesn't translate much. Still, I think it is really pretty! Plus, it smells good :) I liked the scent a lot; it was a light, fruity scent that didn't bother me at all. Although I am sure I looked a little weird smelling my nails in public... :)

This is 2 coats Revlon Not So Blueberry, and NO top coat. The top coat could interfere with the scent. EDIT: I've gotten some comments from girls who said topcoat won't ruin the scent. I just didn't know if it would, so I didn't take the risk. Feel free to SV it :)